Personnel Official: USIS Security Check Allegations Are a “Violation of Public Trust”

The official overseeing most government security background checks on Thursday blasted US Investigations Services, LLC, the largest private contractor working on such cases, over allegations the company for years methodically defrauded the government by filing flawed investigations.

Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, in a written statement described the allegations against the firm as “an egregious violation of the public trust” and said the government must “take steps to hold bad actors accountable and to ensure such practices never happen again.”

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